Notes on Contributors

Elena Cima

is a Lecturer in International Energy Law at the University of Geneva. She holds a PhD in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva), a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Milan and an ll.m degree from Yale Law School. Her research interests include international economic and environmental law, climate change, and energy law.

David Collins

is a Professor of International Economic Law at City, University of London specializing in international investment law and the law of the World Trade Organization. He is the co-editor in chief of International Trade Law and Regulation and Series Editor for Routledge Insights on International Economic Law. David has written more than 40 articles and book chapters and six books including most recently Foundations of International Economic Law (Elgar, 2019).

Lorenzo Cotula

is a Principal Researcher in Law and Sustainable Development at the International Institute for Environment and Development (iied). He is also a Visiting Professor at Strathclyde Law School, and a Visiting Research Fellow at Warwick Law School’s Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (globe). Lorenzo’s work cuts across international investment law; international human rights law; land and natural resource law; and legal empowerment, citizen agency and public accountability.

Eric De Brabandere

is Professor of International Dispute Settlement Law and Director of the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies. He is also Attorney-at-Law at the Brussels Bar (with dmdb Law) practicing in international law and investment arbitration, Editor-in-Chief of the Leiden Journal of International Law, and a member of the Board of Editors of the Journal of World Investment & Trade, the Revue belge de droit international (Belgian Review of International Law), and the Martinus Nijhoff Investment Law Book Series. He formerly held visiting professorships at the University of Trento in Italy (in international investment law) and the Catholic University of Lille in France (in international dispute settlement).

Farouk El-Hosseny

is an international arbitration practitioner based in London, United Kingdom. He regularly advises clients on arbitrations governed by the icc, icsid and uncitral Arbitration Rules. Farouk also sits as arbitrator, namely in cases brought under the icc and diac Arbitration Rules. In addition, he advises clients in respect to issues of international human rights law, including in cases before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. Farouk was a legal counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, and headed the Court’s Mauritius office as its Acting Representative, where he administered appointing authority requests, investor-state and commercial arbitrations. He is the author of “Civil Society in Investment Treaty Arbitration: Status and Prospects” (Brill Nijhoff, 2018). Farouk holds a PhD degree in public international law from Leiden University and was a visiting scholar at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in civil law from the University of Ottawa and an llm from the University of Montreal.

Tarcisio Gazzini

is Professor of international law at the University of East Anglia and visiting professor at the University of Trento and the Geneva Academy of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. He has previously taught at the Universities of Padua, Glasgow and vu Amsterdam. Between 2014 and 2017, he co-directed a research project financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation on “Foreign Investment in Africa: Gaining Development Momentum”. His publications include a monograph on the Interpretation of International Investment Treaties (Hart, 2016). He is a member of the editorial board of the book series published by Brill-Nijhoff on International Investment Law.

Sondra Faccio

is research fellow at the School of International Studies of the University of Trento (Trento, Italy), where she works on the project “The commercial policy of the EU in civil wars and in other cases of disputed sovereignty: a perspective of international law”.

Youseph Farah

MCiarb, llb Hebrew University, llm, PhD Essex University is an Associate Professor in International Dispute Resolution and the director of the llm programme in International Commercial Dispute Resolution at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom (with Tenure). He is an expert on English Contract Law, international commercial arbitration, and on the remediation of business related human rights violations. Youseph is a member of London Chartered institute of Arbitrators, and a member of the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Essex. Youseph was a visiting Professor twice to Michigan State University, and is a visiting Professor at Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France), and the École normale supérieure de Rennes (France). He has published in Peer reviewed Journals on investment and human rights, international commercial arbitration, international commercial litigation, and EU consumer law. His professional career outside of academia includes advising law firms, businesses and ngos on matters relating to international trade, international dispute resolution management, and business and human rights (including trade and ethics, and gscop).

Yenkong Ngangjoh Hodu

is a Professor of International Economic Law and Head of The University of Manchester Law School. Before coming to Manchester, he was a senior researcher and a programme coordinator on Global Trade and Regional Integration at the Nordic Africa Institute (nai) in Uppsala-Sweden. He is regularly consulted by many governments, regional organisations and United Nations Agencies on international trade and investment law. He has published broadly on international trade law especially in the area of dispute resolution. Some of his publications include; icsid Annulment Procedure and the wto Appellate System: The Case for an Appellate System for Investment Arbitration, 2015, Vol. 6 No. 2, (2015), The Political Economy of wto Implementation and China’s Approach to Litigation in the wto, (Edward Elgar, 2016), African Perspectives on International Investment Law, (mup, forthcoming 2020) etc.

Avidan Kent

is an Associate Professor at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow with the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (cisdl). Avidan’s research interests include the fields of Public International Law, International Economic Law, International Dispute Resolution, and International Environmental Law. Avidan holds an llm from McGill University, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Valentine Olusola Kunuji

is a PhD Candidate and Research Associate at the University Of East Anglia Law School with research interests focused on Business and Human Rights and International Investment Law.

Saudin Jacob Mwakaje

is a Lecturer at School of Law, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He is an Advocate of the High Court of Tanzania Mainland and Tanzania Zanzibar and a member of the International Trademark Association (inta). He has researched widely and published on areas of investments and intellectual property rights at both local and international levels.

Maria Laura Marceddu

is teaching fellow in international economic law at the University of Edinburgh, and visiting lecturer in international investment law at King’s College London. Since May 2020, she has been appointed as a fellow of the Centre of European Law at King’s College London, and as a research associate at the Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law. Beyond academia, she serves as the executive treasurer of the Society of International Economic Law (2018), where she is also chair of the investment law network and of the Online Conversations series.

Franz Zubieta Mariscal

is a Career Diplomat, Legal Counsel, and Lecturer on International Law. He served as Director-General of International Arbitration at the State Attorney’s Office of Bolivia, Director-General of International Law at the Ministry of Justice of Bolivia, and Director-General of International Legal Research and Analysis at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia (diremar). Currently, he is a Legal Counsel in international dispute resolution at Mariscal & Mariscal Law Firm and Lecturer on International Law at the Simón Bolívar Andean University (Andean Community) and Raksha Shakti University (Republic of India).

Chrysoula Mavromati

is an Investment Policy Officer and Negotiator at the Directorate-General for Trade of the European Commission. Prior to this, she was Legal Adviser at the UK Department for International Trade, where she advised on investment treaty negotiations and disputes, trade law and international law issues. She was formerly Legal Counsel- Institutional Matters to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) at the World Bank in Washington, DC. She has also worked as a Fellow with the Operations Policy Unit of the World Bank’s Legal Vice Presidency and has completed stints with the International Trade and Investment Group of Hogan Lovells in Brussels and the Legal Unit of the Directorate-General for Trade of the European Commission.

Sophie Nappert

is an arbitrator in independent practice, based in London. She is the peer-nominated Moderator of ogemid, the discussion group on international economic law and dispute resolution. Ms Nappert is the author of a Commentary on the 2010 uncitral Arbitration Rules. She is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars on issues of international arbitration, international investment law and dispute resolution. She is a guest lecturer at Columbia Law School, Harvard Law School and McGill University Faculty of Law.

Chris Maina Peter

is a Professor of Law Emeritus, School of Law, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He is an Advocate of the High Court of Tanzania and a member of the United Nations International Law Commission (ilc); and has lectured, researched and published extensively in the areas of investment law and international finance.

Francesco Seatzu

is Professor of international law at the University of Cagliari and has been visiting scholar and professor in several European universities. He is a Member of the Doctoral School of International and EU Law of the State University of Milano since 2007, of the cidoie (Centro Interuniversitario sul Diritto delle Organizzazioni Internazionali Economiche), of the Italian Society of International Law. He is a member of the Board of Editors of several prestigious journals. His research interests include international economic law, private international law, international dispute settlement, as well as international institutional law, with a particular focus on international financial institutions and the European Union. He has widely published across these areas.

Esmé Shirlow

is a Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University. She maintains a practice in the field of international law, and has been involved as an advisor to parties in investment treaty claims and in proceedings before the International Court of Justice, and has served as an assistant to a number of investment treaty tribunals. Prior to joining the anu, she worked in the Australian Government’s Office of International Law.

Sarah Spottiswood

is a Legal Adviser at the UK Government Legal Department. She has advised the UK Department for International Trade on investment treaty negotiations and disputes, trade law and international law issues. Prior to this, Sarah was a lawyer at the Australian Attorney-General’s Department, where she advised the Australian Government on investment treaty disputes, international law, constitutional law and public law. She has also worked as a judicial clerk at the High Court of Australia (Australia’s final court of appeal) and at the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre. Sarah holds a Masters of Law (International Law) from the University of Cambridge.

Nataliia Tuzheliak

is an associate of the White & Case International Arbitration Group, based in Paris. She is dual-qualified as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales and an Advocate in Ukraine. Ms Tuzheliak takes great interest in human rights and volunteers with Red Cross, Redress and many regional ngos in Ukraine. She serves as a mentor of the Ukrainian Bar Association Mentoring Programme aimed to help law students advancing their education and building international legal careers.